Singapore – Flung

The InterContinental Robertson Quay: Small Space, Big Impact

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:02:44 +0000

I stayed in Singapore’s new InterContinental Hotel Robertson Quay just a few weeks after it opened last fall. Already, it felt like a well-oiled machine, in its brand new building, shiny in all the right places. It’s an InterContinental, so as one would expect, business needs are well taken care of. The surprise comes in how pleasant a place this is for leisure travelers. All the details below… The Location: The hotel overlooks the Singapore River in the Robertson Quay […]

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Choice Singapore: A Guide to the Offhand and Unexpected

Flung — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:00:41 +0000

Singapore’s global reputation generally lies on three pillars—an all-in embrace of the free market, government-imposed orderliness, and a sweltering climate. This reputation informed my expectations as I prepared to spend a few weeks there this past fall. I certainly wasn’t anticipating the swirl of Malay and Peranakan (aka Chinese) traditions, the pockets of history around one corner and space-age newness around the next. I happily discovered an emergent creative and arts scene alongside the capitalism–elements that are reflected in this […]

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The Warehouse Hotel: Hints of Spice on the Singapore River

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:33:24 +0000

One of the best ways to gauge the quality of a hotel comes when it’s time to leave it. If you’re as stricken over the prospect as I was on my last night at the Warehouse Hotel in Singapore, chances are you’ve landed on something special. I’d grown accustomed, it turned out, to the many ways in which this hotel seduces you, and to the dependable comfort that made the sexiness all the easier to enjoy. The Warehouse opened in […]

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The Sofitel Singapore City Centre: Everything Wow

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:36:20 +0000

Singapore is a place committed to convenience. Things here work, whether through technology or through service. Life’s little hiccups, like a dying phone battery or traffic jam or slow internet, aren’t a part of daily existence. All the better for getting work done in this, one of the world’s great business capitals. Nowhere encapsulates this mindset better than the Sofitel Singapore City Centre, a brand new 223-room hotel in which guests couldn’t be inconvenienced if they tried. I could hardly […]

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Hotel Indigo Singapore Katong: Approaching the Hotel Room Ideal

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:03:54 +0000

In the typical course of things, it makes sense to start with first impressions. In the case of the Hotel Indigo Singapore Katong, however, you’re better off starting with the second and third (and fourth) ones. The rooms here–the second thing you’ll take in–are nothing short of marvelous, suitable surrogates for home, and the restaurant and rooftop infinity pool successfully imbue the place with a wow factor. The lobby, on the other hand, is just a lobby. It isn’t terrible, […]

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Meet the Robot on Staff at Singapore’s M Social Hotel

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 11:23:47 +0000

We stayed at the M Social Hotel, a fairly new hotel in Singapore’s Robertson Quay area, for a couple of days in October. The highlight may have been our interaction with the hotel’s staff robot, Aura…

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How To Navigate Ride-Hailing in Singapore (and all of Southeast Asia)

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 02:55:11 +0000

When it comes to world travel, Uber and its orbit of competing ride-hailing apps have introduced a new ease into getting from point A to point B in unfamiliar places. No longer do you need to know how to get where you’re headed, speak the local language, nor even to have any local currency on you to get there. In addition, there’s an added layer of safety, especially for solo female travelers, in having the driver’s info on record. In […]

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The Hotel Pool Enters Politics (This One Is a Trump Supporter)

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 03:39:59 +0000

Before the plan emerged for me to come here for two weeks, I knew little about Singapore. I had a sense of powerhouse Asian megacities only in the abstract, and my generalizations of them ran toward the overly sterile, overly materialistic, full of suits and really expensive cocktails. I knew Singapore was a fast-paced economic hub, and I knew it boasted some level of multiculturalism. Beyond the abstract, though, what I truly knew about Singapore was that it had the […]

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